Part 2 - Young Minds Internet Security

Awareness Course

Presented by:

Protecting Your
Kids
Protecting your children means taking action

ƒ Set and enforce rules to keep your children safe

ƒ Know who’s on your child’s “buddy list”
“Don’t talk to strangers” still applies
ƒ Keep personal information private
ƒ Children must inform adults when approached by strangers online
ƒ Report strangers who solicit meetings with any child
ƒ Monitor what your children are doing on the Internet
ƒ Don’t allow children to have a computer in their
bedroom or a private area
Computer screens visible to all

2 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

False sense of security

ƒ “It can’t happen to my family…” We have the computer in a high-

traffic area and check on the kids frequently…
ƒ Parents of 14 year-old Cailey followed this approach but were
shocked when their daughter was molested by an online predator
whom she had been chatting with for over 6 months…how?
ƒ Cailey was going to bed early and getting up at 5 AM to chat with
her “online friend”

Low-tech Tip #2:

Plug your cable/DSL modem
into a common lamp timer;
start power at earliest hour
Internet is desired and power off
the modem after parents go to bed

3 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Low-tech monitoring

4 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Web browser history
ƒ What is it?!
ƒ The web browser history records every web site visited
ƒ Can browser histories
or individual entries
be deleted?
ƒ YES! But parents and
children must agree
that this kind of secret-
keeping is NOT
acceptable

Low-tech Tip #3:

CTRL + H shows history
for either Internet Explorer
or Mozilla Firefox

5 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

AutoComplete history
ƒ Useful for checking search engine history
ƒ AutoComplete enabled
by default
ƒ This also can be
erased, but parents
and children need to
establish ground rules
for clearing this data

Low-tech Tip #4:

Go to Google or favorite
search engine and click
on the search box; a list
of all search terms will be
listed

6 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Google SafeSearch

ƒ What can you do about

web searching?
ƒ Set to “strict” to reduce
bad search results
ƒ Strict
ƒ Moderate
ƒ None
ƒ Affects image
& web searches

7 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Google SafeSearch (cont)

Low-tech Tip #5: …and don’t forget to “Save”

Set your Google SafeSearch
Filtering preference setting to
“strict”

8 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Internet cookies
ƒ What kind of cookies?!
ƒ Most web sites leave
“cookies” on your PC
to keep track of info
you’ve previously
submitted or to
record that you’ve
been to a web site
before

9 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

 Step #2:
Type in cookie, then press
Internet cookies (cont)
ƒ Internet cookies, like the browser
history, reveal every web site visited
ƒ Cookies can be cleared,
but this is often overlooked

Low-tech Tip #6: Step #3: double-click on

How to check those Cookies are the folder to see
cookies! organized by the cookies for
user name; the desired user

Step #1:
Start Æ Search

10 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Gmail bonus feature
ƒ All email can be
forwarded to
another account
ƒ Settings
ƒ Forwarding
& Pop

Low-tech Tip #7:

Forward a copy
incoming mail to
____<you>____
and keep Gmail’s
copy in the inbox

11 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Another Gmail bonus feature
ƒ By default, all
Gmail chat sessions
are logged

Low-tech Tip #8:

Click on “Chats”
link to review chat
sessions; open
sessions of
interest for review

12 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Advanced Monitoring

13 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Three strategies for monitoring

ƒ Host-based software

ƒ Network-based solution

ƒ Kiosk Internet station

14 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Host-based software monitoring

ƒ Examples
ƒ Net Nanny
ƒ CYBERsitter
ƒ CyberPatrol

ƒ Pros
ƒ Easy to install
ƒ No extra hardware needed

ƒ Cons
ƒ Need to go to each PC to check logs (?)
ƒ Easy to turn-off or bypass

15 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Network-based solution (web proxy server)
ƒ How it works
ƒ User requests web page from proxy
ƒ Proxy gets the web page and sends to user
ƒ Web requests can be monitored, logged, or filtered
ƒ Pros ƒ Cons
ƒ Central location for logs ƒ Extra hardware needed
ƒ Central filter adjustment ƒ Could be bypassed

Proxy

Web request Web request

Data Data
CNN.com
User

16 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Example of a web proxy on a home network

ƒ Dansguardian on Ubuntu Linux

ƒ Live display of proxy requests
ƒ Display all images with driftnet

17 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Reviewing web proxy logs
ƒ All web activity can be logged and reviewed
ƒ Denied requests warrant particular attention

18 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

DENIED web
requests

19 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Internet Kiosk with monitoring/filtering

ƒ Examples
ƒ Ubuntu Christian Edition
ƒ Futures Inc. YoungMinds

ƒ Pros
ƒ Difficult to bypass
ƒ Central monitoring available

ƒ Cons
ƒ Need extra piece of hardware
ƒ Limited functionality

20 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

A protection framework
ƒ Protect
ƒ Rules and guidelines
ƒ Filtering where available

ƒ Detect
ƒ Monitor activity (high-tech and low-tech)
ƒ Review logs / history files

ƒ Respond
ƒ Don’t overreact…sometimes
it’s not as bad as it looks
ƒ Use your information to
prevent something worse.

21 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Internet safety resources

ƒ i-SAFE America Foundation

www.isafe.org
ƒ www.NetSmartz.org
ƒ www.safekids.com
ƒ Local law enforcement
ƒ National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children
ƒ http://www.cybertipline.com/
ƒ 1-800-843-5678

ƒ See “Additional Resources”

of your course book

22 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

 On behalf of Futures Inc.,
Thank you!

Question & Answer

Session

Phone: (410) 340-4033

Fax: (410) 489-7857
Website: www.futures-inc.com
23 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet